Please Mark there are more adequate places for OS wars I am sure. I understand your point of view I used to be a MacOS fan myself but I don't care much about the OS I use any more, they all look so much the same now.
Thanks for the info on Bill's backlog, we may get his answer re the [Vo] tag in about 8 weeks then :) Am I the only one to pine for this feature BTW? Michel ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark S Bilk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, June 10, 2006 3:24 PM Subject: Re: How to put a [Vo] tag in the message Subject line > On Sat, Jun 10, 2006 at 12:24:40PM +0200, Michel Jullian wrote: >>Thanks Mark for the nice recipe, but it won't work for >>Windows users, > > Maybe if you read this you won't want to use Windows any more > (except for games and such that won't run under Linux and don't > have an equivalent there). Microsoft is a very evil corporation: > > http://cosmicpenguin.com/linux/ > >>and putting a tag in the subject line is a >>standard function in any mailing list server I would think, > > True. > >>can't this be done on eskimo.com lists Bill? > > Apparently he's pretty busy -- 8 weeks backlog of e-mails > according to his note on this page: > > http://amasci.com/amateur/amfrmA.html#urls > >>Or maybe it's time to switch to Googlegroups or Yahoogroups? > > I don't know about Googlegroups, but the delay through > Yahoogroups is several hours, instead of the few minutes through > eskimo.com. Yahoo is also very mercenary. When it started out > offering mailing lists, as ISPs were dropping that service, it > did not insert advertising into the lists, and also had short > delays, so people moved their lists to it. Once it had the lists, > Yahoo started running ads, censoring e-mail addresses in the > messages, and allowing the turnaround delays to get longer and > longer. > > And apparently Yahoo has recently begun to arbitrarily filter out > a lot of legitimate messages as "spam", just as AOL has been > politically censoring its incoming mail for over a year. > > The topics discussed in this list are potentially a threat to > the profits of the tiny ultra-wealthy clique that controls most > of the world's economy, government and media. These rulers have > murdered a million people in the last few years alone to obtain > control over oil deposits, new military bases, and restriction > of ordinary people's freedom. > > I've noticed that the lives of a number of "free-energy" inventors > seem to have ended prematurely. > > We all need to become much more aware of the ruthless businessmen > that are destroying our planet and enslaving and murdering our > people. We should disconnect ourselves from mercenary and fascist > corporations like Yahoo and Microsoft, and choose pro-human > alternatives. > > Mark > >>----- Original Message ----- >>From: "Mark S Bilk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To: <[email protected]> >>Sent: Friday, June 09, 2006 11:22 PM >>Subject: How to put a [Vo] tag in the message Subject line >> >> >>>I use the Linux operating system on my PC instead of >>> Microsoft Windows, for ethical and technical reasons >>> explained on my website: >>> >>> http://www.cosmicpenguin.com/ >>> >>> If you're using procmail to process your incoming mail, >>> in, e.g., Linux, BSD, OSX, etc., you can insert a [Vo] >>> (or similar) tag into the Subject line of incoming vortex-l >>> messages by adding this "recipe" (as such entries are called) >>> to your .procmailrc file: >>> >>> >>> :0 fhw >>> * ^X-Mailing-List: <[email protected]> >>> * !^Subject: .*\[Vo.*\] >>> | sed 's/^Subject: /&[Vo] /' >>> >>> >>> The first line begins the recipe. The "f" flag causes the pipe >>> command in the fourth line to act as a filter for the message, >>> i.e., the message is processed through it and procmail then >>> continues testing further recipes to handle the filtered >>> (modified) version of the message. The "h" flag causes the >>> message header (not the body) to be fed to the pipe command. >>> The "w" flag causes procmail to wait until the pipe finishes >>> execution before proceeding. >>> >>> The second line tests that the message contains the header line >>> "X-Mailing-List: <[email protected]>", which all vortex-l >>> messages do (at least the recent ones that I looked at). This >>> is the main test to detect that the message comes from the list. >>> Some messages don't contain the list name in the "To:" header >>> line, or even the "Cc:" line (if the list was named in the >>> "Bcc:" line by the poster). >>> >>> The third line of the recipe tests that the Subject line of the >>> message does not already contain a string of the form [Vo...] >>> or [vo...]. If people use this method to add a [Vo] tag to >>> incoming vortex-l messages and then they respond to the messages, >>> their outgoing responses will contain the tag in the Subject line, >>> and it will be received as such by list subscribers. So procmail >>> should not add a second tag to such received messages. The >>> regular expression \[Vo.*\] is used so that any tag with square >>> brackets beginning with Vo will be detected ( [Vo], [vortex], >>> [Vort], etc. ). Since procmail test conditions use egrep-style >>> regular expressions, the square brackets have to be escaped >>> (with "\") so they act as ordinary characters (rather than having >>> their special meaning as part of regular expression syntax). >>> >>> The fourth line pipes the message header through the sed >>> (stream-editor) program to perform the actual insertion of the >>> tag into the Subject line. When sed finds the string "Subject: " >>> at the beginning ("^") of a header line, it substitutes ("s") >>> something for that. What it substitutes is what it just found >>> ("&"), followed by the string "[Vo] ". Since sed uses the >>> earlier grep-style regular expressions, the square brackets act >>> as ordinary characters when they are _not_ escaped by "\". >>> >>> You can replace [Vo] in the fourth line with [Vortex], [Vort], >>> [vortex-l], etc., to suit your taste, as long as it has square >>> brackets and begins with "vo" (in upper or lower case), so it >>> will be detected by the third line of the recipe when it comes >>> back through the list server. >>> >>> There are plenty of procmail tutorials on the Web; just google >>> for "procmail". This is a rather esoteric usage for it. Mostly >>> I just use it to divert messages from certain idiots (none on >>> this list) into spam files, which is much simpler. Regular >>> expressions, and sed, are also pretty simple once you get familiar >>> with them, and they're extremely useful. >>> >>> In general, Linux is as easy to use as MS-Windows, if you have >>> someone install it for you (which your local Linux user group >>> will do for free -- see my website), like the PC store installs >>> Windows. And it's much more powerful and reliable, as well as free. >>> >>> And if you want respect, well, it's absolutely essential: >>> >>> http://www.nata2.info/humor/flash/switchlinux3.swf >>> >>> Mark >>> >>> >
